SPARTANBURG CO., SOUTH CAROLINA - OBITS - DEAN, Edward J. (Capt) ************************************************ SCGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm Contributed to the SCGenWeb Archives by: Cadace (Teal) Gravelle ************************************************ "The Jacksonville Republican" Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, FEBRUARY 21, 1885 DEATH OF CAPT. EDWARD J. DEAN Capt. Edward J. Dean died in Rome, Ga., the 12th inst., where he had gone for treatment at the hands of Dr. Beatty for Bright's disease. For some years, Capt. Dean resided in Alexandria Valley in this county and was very highly esteemed. A few years ago he removed to Talladega county and was a citizen of that county at the time of his death. He was a brother of Mr. Hosea Dean of this county who now resides in Alexandria. Capt. Dean was born in Spartanburg. S.C. on January 1, 1842. His father was a man of distinguished position in that state. His mother was a resident of Washington city at the time of her marriage and was a lady of the very highest culture and fine social position. The parents of Mr. Dean were possessed of wealth and he, consequently had the very best advantages in his early life. He was a student at St. James College, Maryland at the outbreak of the war, but at once left college and joined the first company that enlisted from his native state. During the war he became Captain of Co. C, 22nd S.C. Volunteers and commanded his troops with marked courage and ability until he was captured at the battle of the "Crater" in front of Petersburg, that notable encounter that members of the 10th Alabama now living can so easily recall. Being carried to prison, he was urged to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and become a free man, but, although he had relatives of wealth and then living in Washington city and while such a course would have procured for him a life of ease and even luxury, he preferred to suffer affliction with those whom he had cast his lot and share the hardships of prison life, and he steadily refused such overturese and remained a prisoner until the close of the war. This incident serves to show the character of the man he was, and it tells at the same time the secret of the strong hold which he took upon the esteem and affections of those with whom he came in contact. As one who knew him best has said to us, " he was a patriot, a loyal friend and a man full of warm impulses and generous affections." The Talladega Mountain Home newspaper, in the course of a warm eulogy thus alludes to the religious side of his life: " Captain Dean was a most efficient deacon of the Baptist church in Talladega, and one whose labors will be seriously missed by his church and pastor. He was a highly social and genial man, active and earnest in whatever claimed his attention, frank and outspoken to a fault; there was never any doubt as to which side of any questions had his cooperation. He was in the truest sense, a gentleman. He approached death in rational possession of mind, in perfect comfort and composure and with the joyous prospects of a dying Christian. "